BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition: Climate rifts ahead of G20 talks
This is a syndicated post. Original article from BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition , available at BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition . Disputes over Climate Change and Stimulus spending have emerged ahead of a G20 summit in St Andrews, Scotland.

Barcelona Climate Talks End after a Week of Boycotts- Next Stop: Copenhagen: VIDEO
The final week of Climate negotiations in Barcelona have now ended. The last meeting before the main event in Copenhagen next month served to emphasize the lingering stalemate between rich and poor nations, and the equally unmoving impasse between political factions in the United States. On Tuesday, delegations from 50 African nations boycotted the Climate talks [...]

Alistair Darling says climate change deal is -essential'
Protesters have attempted to block the road between St Andrews and the Fairmont Hotel, where international delegates were gathering for the G20 Summit. A number of protesters had chained themselves together at a junction, police said, forcing traffic to take diversions. A Fife Police spokesman said: "We can confirm the arrest of five persons following an attempt to disrupt traffic flow on the outskirts of St Andrews about 7pm tonight. "A police patrol discovered the group and brought...

Environmental groups debate new tack in climate-change fight: PHOTO
MANHATTAN, KAN. -- A curious debate has broken out among American environmental groups, as the Senate balkily starts to focus on the threat of Climate Change.

Inaction by U.S. cited as climate talks stall: PHOTO
Accord unlikely before 192-nation U.N. conference next month.

Climate change skeptics 'reckless gamblers'
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has launched a stinging attack on opposition Climate Change sceptics, a month out from the Copenhagen summit. In a lengthy address to Sydney's Lowy Institute today, Mr Rudd declared the sceptics to be gamblers who were betting their grandchildren's future away. "These do-nothing Climate Change sceptics are prepared to destroy our children's future," Mr Rudd said. He applied plenty of pressure to Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull in the terse and strongly...

Darling makes G20 climate call: PHOTO
Chancellor Alistair Darling has urged finance ministers from the world's leading economies to "get on" with tackling Climate Change. Speaking ahead of the G20 meeting, which begins in St Andrews on Friday, Mr Darling said Climate Change was a "present problem" which needs billions of pounds of funding from governments across the globe in order to be tackled. He said: "We either take action and stop those problems happening or we fail to take action and we face bigger...

China studying UN climate deal: PHOTO
China is weighing the prospect of reaching only a framework agreement at UN Climate talks this December

Climate Bill: Friend or FOE?
Most of the big environmental groups are cheering the advancement of Climate legislation out of the Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday, but the farther-left environmental groups are still not happy with the bill. Laudatory responses came almost immediately from Sierra Club , National Wildlife Federation , Environmental Defense Fund , and the Natural Resources Defense Council , to name a few. But Friends of the Earth—which along with Greenpeace was the only major green group...

Computer simulations may be overstating impact of climate change on biodiversity
London, November 7 - ANI: In a new research, scientists have suggested that some large-scale computer simulations may be overestimating the impact of Climate Change on biodiversity in some regions. According to a report by BBC News, the researchers said models that analyse vast areas often failed to take into account local variations, such as topography and microclimates. Local-scale simulations, which did include these factors, often delivered a more optimistic outlook, they added. One of the...

Strait of Magellan: PHOTO
Climate Change in the Magellan and Antarctic Region: Facts and Challenges for the Future, was the topic of the meeting of the renowned Climate scientists

Rifts appear ahead of G20 meeting: PHOTO
Disputes over Climate Change and Stimulus spending have emerged ahead of a meeting of G20 finance ministers.

Civil Unrest Has a Role in Stopping Climate Change, Says Gore
Al Gore has sought to inject fresh momentum into the Copenhagen build-up, saying he is certain Barack Obama will attend and predicting a rise in civil disobedience against Fossil-fuel polluters unless drastic action is taken over global warming. Amid increasing incidents of Climate protesters disrupting the operations of Fossil-fuel industries and airports in Britain and elsewhere, Gore suggests the scale of the emergency means non-violent lawbreaking is justified. "Civil disobedience has...

Energy and climate change questions
Wealthy nations need to "put their money where their mouth is" and promise finance for a global Climate Change deal, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has said. Speaking at his departmental question session on 5 November, Mr Miliband told MPs he expected negotiations at next month's crucial international summit in Copenhagen to go "right down to the wire", with funding for developing countries set to be a potential stumbling block .

For a climate of security
Al Gore made 'em laugh yesterday when he brought his Climate-change road show to Philadelphia. Criticized by some observers for being too serious, too eggheaded, during his 2000 campaign for the presidency, Gore introduced himself during his Foreign Affairs Council keynote address with "I'm Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States." When the audience cracked up, he deadpanned, "I don't think that's particularly funny." He then pronounced himself "a...

For a climate of security
Al Gore made 'em laugh yesterday when he brought his Climate-change road show to Philadelphia. Criticized by some observers for being too serious, too eggheaded, during his 2000 campaign for the presidency, Gore introduced himself during his Foreign Affairs Council keynote address with "I'm Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States." When the audience cracked up, he deadpanned, "I don't think that's particularly funny." He then pronounced himself "a...

Panel OKs climate-change bill without GOP
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday passed a sweeping Climate-change bill, with none of the panel's seven Republicans participating in the 11-1 vote.

Climate talks end in acrimony as UN and EU accuse US of endangering deal
The last formal negotiations before the global summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen concluded in acrimony today, with developing countries threatening to walk out of the December conference unless rich countries commit themselves to far greater cuts in Greenhouse gas emissions . While the countries remain officially optimistic that a strong global warming treaty can be struck, they are privately braced for a weak outcome which heads of state will sign, but the public and scientists will...

Break Stuff to Save the Planet: Gore
Al Gore says nonviolent disruption of polluters and airports is justified considering the grave threat posed by Climate Change. "Civil disobedience has an honorable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play," Gore tells the Guardian . "And I expect that it will increase, no question about it."

Darling urges divided G20 to reach climate finance deal
By Toni Vorobyova and Anna Willard ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Chancellor Alistair Darling urged his G20 counterparts on Saturday to work towards a $100 billion (60 billion pound) deal on tackling Climate Change as developing nations held firm they did not want to talk about it. Darling is hosting the third meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers this year in St Andrews, Scotland, to discuss the progress of the global economy and come up with a framework to ensure...

What's the Deal With Nukes?
I've long wondered just why conservatives are so obsessed with Nuclear Power.  If nukes had the potential to do away with our Climate Change problem entirely, then I could see it.  Hooray, no new regulations!  But even cheerleaders for Nuclear Power don't suggest that it could produce more than a small fraction of our electricity in the next 20 or 30 years.  So why has it become such a hobbyhorse? Brad Plumer investigates today and basically says he's not sure either. ...

Darling urges G20 progress on climate finance
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Chancellor Alistair Darling on Saturday called on his G20 counterparts to make progress on Climate Change finance. Darling, hosting the G20 finance ministers' meeting, also said a framework for the return to future economic growth needed to be agreed. (Writing by Toni Vorobyova)

Climate Talks End on Divided Note
UN representatives have been working to create a draft political agreement to be presented at next month's Climate Change talks in Copenhagen. But the lack of a legally binding deal

World leaders hope for climate deal
At least 40 world leaders have said they will attend Climate Change talks in Denmark next month, but there are still fears that there will be few tangible results after preparatory meetings ended with scant progress. The weeklong talks in Barcelona, which ended on Friday, exposed the divide between rich and developing nations on sharing the burden of proposed cuts in emission of gases believed to cause global warming.

World leaders hope for climate deal
At least 40 world leaders have said they will attend Climate Change talks in Denmark next month, but there are still fears that there will be few tangible results after preparatory meetings ended with scant progress. The weeklong talks in Barcelona, which ended on Friday, exposed the divide between rich and developing nations on sharing the burden of proposed cuts in emission of gases believed to cause global warming.